On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Maciej Marchlewski wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ayash Kanto Mukherjee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Boy, oh boy! I blank fired 40 bullets. :-(( > > First time in my life. > > Don't be to sad. As Forrest Gump said in the movie "shit happens"...
I have to accept it now as there is no other way. > > To make it easier for you I can tell that it also happenned to me. I loaded > my newly purchased MX and had taken some nice Christmas shots of my family > and begun to get suspicious when couple days later I managed frame 39. I > thought that there might be something in the winding mechanism that allows > to move the lever without moving the film (some sort of clutch) so rewinded > the film and had it developed ordering a set of prints. To my dismay it > turned out that after I winded from frame 1 to 2, film slipped from the > taking spool and all the shots were made on the same piece of film. Is it a common problem in all mechanical manual focus slrs? It also depends on the make/brand/model? For example, Pentax LX won't have this problem at all, just a guess. > Of course I was ready to blame it on a camera malfunction but after > questioning the PDML I found it tough lesson to watch the rewind knob as > I wind the film. Yes, that is a big lesson for me. From now one I shall always watch it till all the frames are shot. No compromise. > To cheer you even more I can tell you that it also happened to other people > from PDML :-) > > Cheers > > Maciej Many thanks for cheering me up. :-) I feel much better now. :-)) Thanks again. Ayash. - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
